Public policy think tank Civic Exchange today noted that dust from a giant sandstorm in northern China has caused record levels of air pollution. However, the greater harm comes from living in a persistently high pollution environment, and there is an urgent need to reduce the pollution Hong Kong generates itself.
Civic Exchange submission to Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs (Subcommittee on Improving Air Quality) – Early Replacement of Old Diesel Commercial Vehicles.
To continue the meeting on 28-Jan regarding the upcoming 2010-2011 budget, Civic Exchange would like to make an additional point about upgrading of the franchised bus fleet.
Civic Exchange today announced that roadside pollution levels measured by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Mobile real-time air monitoring
platform van are substantially higher than those recorded by the Environmental Protection Department’s roadside monitoring stations.
This policy paper prepared by Civic Exchange urges the HKSAR Government to tell the public that the cost of upgrading Hong Kong’s old and highly polluting franchised bus can be shared among the bus operators, the public purse and bus riders….
Hong Kong’s pollution levels are causing an epidemic of health problems and premature deaths, including permanent injury to the lungs of children, and premature deaths in the elderly.
